Departmental Publications

David Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on what date his Department published the Households Below Average Income annual statistics in each of the last six years; and on what date he plans to publish the statistics for 2006-07.

Stephen Timms: holding answer 21 April 2008
	 The publication dates of the last six sets of households below average income statistics are given in the following table.
	This year's statistics will be published in June. Publication has been delayed by additional validation and quality assurance checks of the data set. The date of publication has been announced on the National Statistics website, in line with the National Statistics Code of Practice.
	
		
			  Households below average income publication  Publication date 
			 1994-95 to 2000-01 11 April 2002 
			 1994-95 to 2001-02 13 March 2003 
			 1994-95 to 2002-03 30 March 2004 
			 1994-95 to 2003-04 30 March 2005 
			 1994-95 to 2004-05 9 March 2006 
			 1994-95 to 2005-06 27 March 2007 
			 1994-95 to 2005-06 (revised edition) 22 May 2007